Activity
From 03/05/2017 to 04/03/2017
04/03/2017
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07:18 PM Support #757 (Feedback): Young mothers data
- Hi Marsha,
Understanding Society data are made available through the UK Data Service and can be downloaded from thei... -
- Hi Maria,
in Wave 1 the SF12 was carried in the face-to-face (f2f) questionnaire but it was decided that it should b... -
04:15 PM Support #760 (Closed): Number of sibling pairs with genetic data
- Hi I'm trying to find out how many pairs of siblings exist where both individuals have genotype data. Is this (or an ...
03/31/2017
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04:22 PM Support #759 (Closed): SF-12
- Hello,
I wonder why SF-12 variables are available twice in Waves 2 to 5: as usual variables and as self-completion. ...
03/30/2017
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09:59 AM Support #758 (In Progress): weights for pooled cross-sections over waves (a)-(f)
- Dear Nico,
Many thanks for your enquiry, I am passing it on to our weighting team to look into.
Best wishes, Vi...
03/29/2017
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06:32 PM Support #758 (Closed): weights for pooled cross-sections over waves (a)-(f)
- Hi there,
I am running hourly wage (constructed with w_paygu_dv) on a number of regressors in a pooled cross-sect... -
- Dear Rory,
Just a brief update:
We can now confirm that the BHPS individual level variable wMOVEST was compute... -
- Dear Rory,
Sorry for the delay while we have been looking into this.
We have tried to respond as far as possibl... -
11:58 AM Support #757 (Closed): Young mothers data
- Hello
I am interested in using Understanding Society data to explore data around teenage and young mothers. More s... -
08:27 AM Support #756 (Closed): Questions regarding the cognitive ability measures in understand society
- Hi, my name is Johannes Bennetzen and I am looking through the cognitive ability measures in understand society. As f...
03/28/2017
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- Dear Jingyi
there are different ways to identify the gender of respondent's non co-resident children, and which way ... -
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03/23/2017
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07:07 PM Support #755 (Closed): non-coresident adult children
- Dear Support team,
I have a question about Understanding Society, I would be appreciated if you can give me some a... -
- Dear Aina,
to our knowledge there is no exact mapping of SIC 1980 to SIC 1992. In some waves of the BHPS responses w...
03/22/2017
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01:02 PM Support #754: Three Class NS-SEC - jbnssec3_dv
- Thank you very much.
Best, Sait -
- Dear Sait,
you are right. the label was misleading. The variable is derived from JBNSSEC_DV, which in turn is derive... -
- Hi,
I try to make use of jbnnsec3_dv variable. According to the value labels, three categories are (1) management ... -
- Dear Gloria,
The Understanding Society measure of labour income is a current measure. It asks for the “usual” amou...
03/21/2017
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- Dear Helen,
Many thanks for your enquiry.
1 – we would include respondents in these types of accommodation, tha... -
02:18 PM Support #753 (Closed): Temporary Accommodation
- Hi there! I'm trying to understand whether the survey tracks temporary accomodation, and if so where I could find thi...
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03:36 PM Support #752: Weights
- Thank you Peter.
It would be really useful to have the weights earlier please, since I am putting together some fi... -
03:24 PM Support #752: Weights
- Nicola,
Yes, we can supply the weight. However, it will be included in an update to the data that will be released... -
- Hello,
I notice from a previous posting on the User Support site (#736), that the weight f_indscub_xw for the adul... -
- Kirsty,
Sorry for slow reply. The provision of weights requires the ability to estimate probabilities of continuin...
03/20/2017
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- Dear Gillian,
it appears you are comparing results published using GHQ-12 caseness scores with results using GQH-12 ... -
- Hi Julia,
we cannot reproduce your analysis data set from the description you have sent. We can only recommend that ...
03/18/2017
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08:33 PM Support #751 (Closed): Confusing data on rjbstat
- Dear Support Team,
I'm having a problem interpreting the Stata output attached.
I am working with a merged file (Wa...
03/17/2017
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10:02 AM Support #750 (Closed): Industry codes
- Are there cross-walk that map the 1980 and 1992 industry classifications used in the BHPS?
I need to create a vari... -
- Dear Ian,
thank you for making us aware of this dicrepancy. We have not concluded our investigation but there appear... -
- Yes, you arrived at the correct conclusion! Information from the proxy informant about the proxy respondent is alread...
03/16/2017
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- Hi Gundi,
Yes, I think you have clarified this issue for me. At first I thought that those cells labeled 'proxy' cou... -
- Hi Julia,
we have not heard back from you. Did you manage to link information for the person providing the proxy int... -
04:10 PM Support #749 (Closed): w_scparoutint
- The question "Do you and your partner engage in outside interests together?" has 6 valid answers ('never' to 'all the...
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03:15 PM Support #748 (Closed): GHQ-12 results
- I am trying to make some comparisons across data for the GHQ-12 (including publications using the previous BHPS) and ...
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12:27 PM Support #694: "Ever divorced" and "Ever widowed" in Understanding Society
- We are very sorry for the delay in responding to this.
We are aiming to provide these in the separate partnership... -
- Dear Yujung,
We apologise for the delay in responding.
The file you should look at is W_INDSAMP. This file incl... -
11:58 AM Support #746: Household relatives
- Dear Gundi,
thank you very much for your prompt reply. I will have a look on what you suggested and hopefully will... -
- Hi Dora,
there is no specific variable reporting this at the household level. But there is an entire dataset that st... -
- Dear all,
I would like to ask if there is any variable that tell us in which households there are relatives and wh... -
- Dear Gloria,
Many thanks for your enquiry. I have paassed this on to our income team who are looking into it for y... -
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- Dear Ben,
Could I please just check whether you still need our help with this issue? If you could provide some mor... -
10:16 AM Support #733: Identifying residential movers
- Dear Victoria,
Thank you for your reply. I hadn't noticed the ff_allmoved indicator, so this is very helpful.
H...
03/15/2017
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- Hi Yigit,
the linkage process in this area has not advanced as much as other data linkage projects (such as linkage ...
03/14/2017
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03:56 PM Support #745: Interviewer number query
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I've had a look at the h_intnum variable on the h_indresp_ip data and this is "inapplicable" for 2267 out ... -
- Hi,
I received this (below) - I can look into it, but wanted to post it here in case it's come up before (I did a...
03/13/2017
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02:44 PM Support #743: Education Information
- Thanks a lot for your prompt response. Yes, I'll wait for it. Do you think it would take more than a year?
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- Hi Yigit,
we collect some information about the highest educational qualification (the information is stored in the ... -
- Emily Midouhas wrote:
> I am developing a grant proposal that would use US, and I am wondering what the process is f... -
11:10 AM Support #744 (Closed): geographical data linkage
- I am developing a grant proposal that would use US, and I am wondering what the process is for having geographical da...
03/11/2017
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- Hi,
I am new and trying to get used to Innovation Panel. I've read the manual and checked all the variables avail...
03/10/2017
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07:07 PM Support #742 (Closed): Income
- I need to build a gross annual labor income variable and a gross weekly labor income variable. These should be compar...
03/09/2017
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11:01 AM Support #724: Education in BHPS and UKHLS (harmonization and classification)
- Thank you for your answer, Victoria. Always very precise.
Yes, that would be helpful.
Best,
Lydia
03/07/2017
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04:22 PM Support #729: modetype variable
- Thanks for the clarification !!
Best,
Yujung -
- Dear Yujung,
The description of the universe for the variable ethid4a on the online documentation does not need to... -
- Dear Rory,
There is a question asked at the “household” level about whether the household is still residing at the... -
- DEar Leanne,
There is a question asked at the “household” level about whether the household is still residing at t... -
- I meant cognitive ability module. (not cognitive development module).
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- Hi Michaela,
all questions asked in the interview are included in the questionnaire which we make available online ... -
03:43 PM Support #741 (Closed): data on cognitive abilities and physical exercise
- Hi,
I would like to use data on cognitive abilities. Questions should be included in W3 and should be in the c_indre...
03/06/2017
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- David,
1. n_ythscub_xw exists from wave 3 onwards, but not for wave 2.
2. I don't know the answer and I am conc... -
- Julia Borodina wrote:
> Dear Gundi,
> Thanks a lot for the answer! I'd also like to find out how I can link the a... -
- There will be an indicator variable in the data that tells you the person number of the person providing the proxy re...
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- Hi Julia,
not all questions are addressed to all people during the interview, and in the data we use negative values... -
- Dear Support Team,
I am going to write a bachelor thesis using Understanding society and I would like to know how ... -
- Thank you very much for this clarification. This really helps understanding better the codebook and the dataset.
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- Dear Yujung,
There is no typo. The ff type variables are ones that are fed forward (ff) into a subsequent wave to ... -
- Hi, many thanks for the clarification.
Then I'm afraid some of the descriptions on the universe of the variables o... -
- Dear Yujung,
Modetype is only available in wave 6 in the hhresp, indall and child data files as f_modetype and is ... -
- Dear Bernard,
Many thanks for your message.
We cannot create these cross tabulations, this is something you wou... -
- Dear Lydia,
Re: point 1, I think it is the other way around - there is a BHPS ISCED classification already, but th... -
- Dear Dan,
Apologies for the delay while we were looking into this.
The reason that these variables are not incl...
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